How James Baldwin Found Sanctuary in 1960s Turkey

For a decade, Sedat Pakay chronicled the most famous American expat since Ernest Hemingway.

“I don’t really know what I am, you know, politically speaking,” James Baldwin says as he tightens the bathrobe sash around his waist while moving about his Istanbul  bedroom in May 1970.  
Turkish photographer Sedat Pakay moves throug...

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